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Published inJun 2013
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849696821
Edition1st Edition
Languages
C++
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SDL
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2D Game Development
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Shaun Mitchell
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Shaun Mitchell

Shaun Mitchell is a developer at a high profile online gaming company. He holds a BSc in Game Programming and Development from Qantm College / SAE Institute London. Shaun is also a moderator and active member of the <dream.in.code> programming community.
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Installing SDL_image

So far we have only been loading BMP image files. This is all that SDL supports without any extensions. We can use SDL_image to enable us to load many different image file types such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, LBM, PCX, PNG, PNM, TGA, TIFF, WEBP, XCF, XPM, and XV. First we will need to clone the latest build of SDL_image to ensure it will work with SDL 2.0:

  1. Open up the TortoiseHg workbench and use Ctrl + Shift + N to clone a new repository.

  2. The repository for SDL_image is listed on http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ and http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image/. So let's go ahead and type that into the Source box.

  3. Our destination will be a new directory, C:\SDL2_image. After typing this into the Destination box, hit clone and wait for it to complete.

  4. Once you have created this folder, navigate to our C:\SDL2_image cloned repository. Open up the VisualC folder and then open the SDL_image_VS2010 VC++ project with Visual Studio 2010 express.

  5. Right-click on the SDL2_image project and then...

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